Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.
I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.
The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.
Every moment is a new beginning.
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.
Some people are just born wack, you can't teach certain wackness.